Harvard Square

Gallery Talk: Seeing in Art and Medicine
2023-12-14 12:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
This event requires registration; see further details below.
Join curator Jen Thum for an exploration of works in the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine, on view from September 2 to December 30, 2023. Thum will share insights about the museums’ medical humanities program for radiologists—on which the exhibition is based—and what can be gleaned through close looking.
Seeing in Art and Medicine invites visitors to consider the medical program’s themes of narrative, objectivity, embodiment, empathy, power, ambiguity, and care through works from across the collections. Explore big human questions and try your hand at close-looking activities in an interactive setting.
Led by:
Jen Thum, Associate Director of Academic Engagement and Campus Partnerships and Research Curator
Tours are limited to 18 people and registration is required. You can register by clicking on the event on this form, beginning at 10am the day of the talk.
Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk.
The Harvard Art Museums are now offering free admission every day, Tuesday through Sunday. Please see the museum visit page to learn about our general policies for visiting the museums.
Support for Seeing in Art and Medicine is provided by the José Soriano Fund, the Gurel Student Exhibition Fund, and the Annemarie Henle Pope Special Exhibitions Fund. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund and the Richard L. Menschel Endowment Fund.
The Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all visitors. For anyone requiring accessibility accommodations for our programs, please contact us at am_register@harvard.edu at least 48 hours in advance.
